Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-04
MONTANA MATTERS.

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Anaconda depot now is larger than ever
before.
The s-year-old trotting stallion, Pluto
Hiatogo, was sold to II. Golde, OF Deer
Lodge Valley, for 1000.
Twin Bridges will have it's annual stall
lion show next Saturday. It is likely to be
a splendid exhibition this year.
A new road is being agitated between Ar
genta and Dillon, which includes q substan.
tial bridge across the Beaverhead.
Montana is furnishing more than q fair
share of suicides. There have been half a
dozen chroncled since the first day Of April.
An attempt ia made to raise q militia
company in Virginia City, in which con.
nection q brass band would be organized.
Base ball wont draw this season in Miles
City. Ouly half q dozen responded to q
cali for meeting to reorgauize the club for
the season.
The County Commissioners OF Meagher
County appropriated 81, 500 toward build
ing the grades and bridges on the Belt
Creek road.
The new steamboat for Flathead Lake
went through Missoula on the railroad q
week ago. She ia about forty feet long and
ten feet wide.
The long expected Rosebud reached Ben
ton last Tuesday, taking twenty days to
make the trip from Bismarck, the earliest
arrival on record.
The Miles City book beer raised the en-
thusiasm of the Yellowstone Journal man
till he overf1owed with it in half q column
of undiluted praise.
The Sheriff of Custer county arrested two
men named Frenchy and Clover Bill in
Miles City wanted in Crook County, Wyo-
ming, for horse stealing.
The Catholics of Billings and vicinity are
circulating q petition to raise money to
enable them to build church, and thus
far have met with gratifying success.
Ryan's Canyon, south of Dillon, is highly
favored with the stencil of decaying cattle,
and in many instances the carcasses are
to be seen in both the river and adjacent
sloughs.
The Anaconda horse race on the Oath
was won by Burchs horse in the slow time
of 1925 and 3:15. Gamers mare won sec-
ond heat in $3.50. The track was in horri-
BILE condition.
A baseball match has been practically ar
ranged between the Dillon and Glendale
mines for $3.50 side, to be played on the
Dillon grounds, at some future time
yet to be agreed upon.
One day last week, several ''fy" young
men were arrested and fined $65 in Glen
dale for driving recklessly about town, rum
ming the horses nearly to death and badly
demoralizing the buggy.
The Bennett Bros. are going to try and
handle the new hall they have put up in
Missoula themselves. It will be rented to
show companies, home entertainments,
church festivals and the like.
Chas. s. Gibson lately purchased Henry
outfit located on Arrow
Creek, including between 5000 and 1000
sheep, ranches, improvements, horses, cat
tie, etc. The price paid was $35, 900.
Sun River feels perfectly secure from the
inroads OF the ''bloody Bloods'' from across
the border. We are under the protection
OF the ''big guns" at Fort Shaw, in whom
we have the greatest conidence.-Rising
Sun.
Between twenty-five and thirty.five
sheep pelts will be brought to
Fort Benton within the next two or three |
months for sale. The total weight will be
about 125, 900 pounds; worth at least
$12,5OO.
It is thought the attempt to blow up a |
train on the q. & N. near Silver Bow was |
aimed at Superintendent Blickensdor |
life as his car was attached to the rear end |!
but for it's discovery.
daetie and Largent srs having a "punt'
vicinity next fall when those ducks come
along. She looks more like torpedo boat
than anything else. She may be intended
or the o. S. in case of war with Canada
Rising Sun.
Some of his victims tried to punish
slick sharper in Anaconda who sold snide
ewelry with big bill apparently inserted
n the watch cases, but were unable to |
prove that he had misrepresented his wares.
On the contrary he had warned people that |
they were bogus.
Sheriff Jones went up to Wanderlich's g |
The other day, and tramped three miles up |
one of the toughest canyons in Montana to |
,cll the Carey saw mill in satisfaction of a
Judgment issued in Silver Bow county. The
was bid in by Bennett Bros, OF
Butte, who will open the mill.-Dillon Ex-
aminer, 9th.
The roads from Philipsburg to Drum
mond and Anaconda are in most ex-
ecrable condition. Freight wagons, it is
claimed, sink down to the hubs, and in
many instances the bottoms OF the wagon |
boxes drag in the mud. 1t is almost i'm
possible to get any freight into Philipsburg.
Mail.
mouse occupied Dy James rersuson'
IN Billings, was burned down at 3:15 Thurs
lay morning with all it's contents. The oc-
;upants barely escaped. The insurance
was $500 on building, $4O0 on furniture
and 500 on clothing in j. D. Matheson's
agency, very small amount on the loss.
Grading is about all completed on the
Helena, Boulder Valley & Butte railway |
rom Jefferson to Boulder. The three tun-
1els are finished, and nothing now remains
out the completion of the trestle bridges.
Rails have already heen laid down for over
4 mile.
Kirkendall & McCune have had orders |
lot to grade too near the mouth OF Sun |
River as the location of the Montana Cen
;ral is not definite in that locality, pending
;he search for coal in the Sand Coulee
No bridge will be built across the
Missouri unless some new discovery in the
;oal fields in the vicinity of Great Falls can
oe made, the present showing of coal not
the construction Of the extra
rack and bridge.-Rising Sun.